Laura Furman Quotes

• It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

  Laura Furman

  Dream, Reading, Able

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• For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.

  Laura Furman

  Book, Littles, Void

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• Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

  Laura Furman

  Reading, Hallucinations, Form

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• Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

  Laura Furman

  Tasks, Impossible, Quitting

  Laura Furman (2011). “The Mother Who Stayed: Stories”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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